pragmatism

In a recent thread called "The Buddha Was Wrong - Reloaded", "onemind" submitted a rough draft entitled "The Buddha Was Wrong", and this appears on page 48: "However, why reduce the sheer enigma and complexity of existence to the limiting and human centric religious dogmas that the past few...

After entering into a discussion here the topic of Pragmatism came up. After doing a bit of reading on the topic, I must admit I am somewhat confused as to the Pragmatic stance in Epistemology. The Pragmatist says knowledge that does not lead to any 'real life' benefit is not knowledge (thus...